tig00396000

Text-inc Id:

tig00396000

Bod-inc Id:

G-208

Headings:

Gregorius I, Pont. Max. Commentum super Cantica Canticorum.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v Gregorius I, Pont. Max.: ‘Prologus.’ See G‑206.
3. a2r Gregorius I, Pont. Max.: Commentum super Cantica Canticorum [Ct 1,1-1,8]. See G‑206.
4. a4v Gregorius I, Pont. Max. [pseudo-; Robertus de Tumbalena]: Commentum super Cantica Canticorum [Ct 2,1-8,14]. See G‑206.

Imprint:

Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 16 Jan. 1498/9. 4°.

Collation:

a–c⁸ d⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ig00396000 GW 11416; HC 7939; Goff G‑396; BMC VIII 31; Pr 8309; Hillard 911; Oates 3124-5; Sack, Freiburg, 1611; Sheppard 6163-4. LCN: 14552709

Copies:

1. G-208(1) First copy Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) quarter calf, with pasteboards covered with marbled paper; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 196 × 131 × 8 mm. Size of leaf: 192 × 125 mm. On a1v a five-line initial ‘Q' and on a2r a seven-line initial ‘O' are both supplied in interlocked red and blue; other initials in red or blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes touched with yellow wash. Text enclosed within single red rules. Provenance: Partly erased inscription on a1r beginning: ‘Celestinorum . . .'; heavily erased inscription on d6v beginning: ‘Cel . . .’ Purchased from Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Catalogue (1830), no. 1342, for £0. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1830), 10. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P 5.15. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 4.7.
2. G-208(2) Second copy Bound with:
   1. Gregorius I, Pont. Max., Homiliae quadraginta. Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 4 May 1508;
   3. Gregorius I, Pont. Max., In septem Psalmos poenitentiales explanatio. Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 16 Jan. 1508[9];
   4. Gregorius I, Pont. Max., Pastorale, sive Regula pastoralis. Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 18 July 1498 (G‑230(2));
   5. Gregorius I, Pont. Max., Homiliae super Ezechielem. Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 8 Apr. 1502;
   6. Gregorius I, Pont. Max., Dialogus. Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 23 Mar. 1508. Binding: Nineteenth-century English (probably Oxford) blind-tooled calf; rebacked. Size: 198 × 139 × 70 mm. Size of leaf: 190 × 130 mm. Provenance: John Hobson († by Mar. 1527)(?); inscription on a2r of item 1: ‘Iste liber constat Johanni Hobson quondam socio colegii Universitatis Oxonie procuratori. Precium iiii.s'; it is not clear whether all six items were travelling together before they were bound in their present binding and therefore whether all were owned or used by Hobson. Oxford, University College; book-plate; shelfmark ‘KK.43.19'; see untitled list. Deposited in 1941 by the Master and Fellows of University College, Oxford. SHELFMARK: Univ. Coll. e.15(2).